My Bloody Valentine to Perform At, Curate All Tomorrow's Parties Festival

My Bloody Valentine will make their long-awaited return to the U.S. stage at the New York version of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, to be held in Monticello, NY, on September 19-21. MBV will also curate the fest. So far, frontman Kevin Shields has recruited four artists to perform classic records in their entirety, with Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Built to Spill's Perfect From Now On, Thurston Moore's solo Psychic Hearts and the Meat Puppets' II getting the full album treatment. Other MBV-approved bands performing are Shellac, Autolux, Mogwai and more. The ATP show would mark MBV's U.S. concert since July 1992. The band will also reportedly add six to eight more shows. Tickets for the event at the not-exactly-mammoth Kutshers Country Club in Monticello go on sale Friday at ATPFestival.com.

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“Weird”

Hanson | 1997

Accomplished tunesmith Desmond Child co-wrote "Weird" with the three brothers that make up Hanson. Credited for dozens of cuts, including songs by Kiss, Cher, Bon Jovi and Aerosmith, Child told Rolling Stone that "Weird" holds a special place in his heart, "because it's about being different--and I grew up poor, I grew up being Latin, I grew up being gay, and now I'm fat!" The song was included on Hanson's 1997 album Middle of Nowhere, which sold more than ten million units.

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